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FlashFloppy is a floppy-drive emulator for the ubiquitous Gotek hardware.

Connect to retro machines just like a real floppy drive but use disk images on a modern USB stick!

• Say goodbye to old and unreliable floppy disks
• Download and play from the disk-image archives for your retro machines

FlashFloppy is Free and Open-Source Software.

Platforms support

Computers: Acorn Archimedes, Acorn BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Amstrad PPC, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, DEC, Dragon, IBM 3174, IBM PC, IBM PS/2, Kaypro, Memotech, Microware, MSX, NEC PC-98, Sharp, Sinclair QL, Spectrum, Tandy Color Computer, TI-99/4A, TSC Flex, UKNC, DVK.

Electronic synthesizers: Akai, E-mu ESI-32, Ensoniq, General Music (GEM), Korg, Kurzweil, Roland, Sequential Circuits Prophet 3000, Yamaha.

Image formats

Directly reads and writes:

• ADF (Commodore Amiga)
• ADM, ADL, ADF, DSD, SSD (Acorn DFS and ADFS)
• ATR (Atari 8-bit)
• D81 (Commodore 64 1581)
• DSK (Amstrad CPC, Spectrum +3, Sam Coupe, Microbee)
• FDI, HDM (NEC PC-98)
• IMG, IMA, DSK (IBM MFM Raw Sector)
• JVC, DSK (Tandy Color Computer 'CoCo')
• MBD (Spectrum MB02)
• MGT (Spectrum DISCiPLE/+D)
• OPD (Spectrum Opus Discovery)
• OUT (Roland)
• SDU (SAB Diskette Utility)
• ST (Atari ST)
• TRD (Spectrum TR-DOS)
• V9T9, DSK (TI-99/4A)
• VDK (Dragon)
• HFE, HFEv3 (Universal)
• XDF (FAT-based eXtended Disk Format, 3.5" HD 1840kB)

Configuration

FlashFloppy has many configurable settings which can be specified in an INI-style configuration file called FF.CFG, placed in the root folder or FF/ subfolder of your USB drive.

An example is provided in the examples/ subfolder of the FlashFloppy distribution.

Links

• GitHub
• Documentation